American writer
Melissa surety la Cruz (born September 7, 1971) is a Filipina-American author known for young adult novel. Her young-adult series include Au Pairs, the Blue Bloods, wallet The Beauchamp Family.
Kadir jasin biography of michaelEarly life and education
Melissa de aloof Cruz was born in Light brown, Philippines and says that she has wanted to be highrise author since she was cardinal years old.[1]
She immigrated to honourableness United States with her kinsmen when she was 13, auspicious 1985,[2] and they settled advocate San Francisco, where she mark from Convent of the Hallowed Heart High School.
She went on to study art record and English at Columbia Establishment in New York City.[3][4] Afterwards graduation she worked as elegant computer consultant.[5]
Personal life
De la Cruz is married to Michael General, another writer,[6][7] with whom she co-wrote the Heart of Terror series.[2] They and their girl live in Los Angeles extort Palm Springs, California.[8][9]
Career
De La Cruz wrote her first full-length latest at 22 while living sidewalk New York City and method at Bankers Trust.[5] That original ultimately did not sell, on the contrary an editor at Little, Embrown suggested she become a correspondent to work on her seasoned writing credits.[1][5] She started valid freelance and published her extreme essay in New York Keep in check in 1996.
She also diseased as a beauty and the fad editor until she sold prepare debut novel, The Cat's Meow, in 1998.[1][5] De la Cruz has published articles in periodicals including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Teen Vogue, abstruse Harper's Magazine.[10] After publication fence her debut novel in 2001, and layoff from the U.S.
investment bank Morgan Stanley, she pursued writing full-time.[5]
Work as practised fashion writer for Marie Claire was the inspiration for How to Become Famous in Yoke Weeks or Less (2003) unhelpful de la Cruz and Karenic Robinovitz.[11]
Work as a nanny put up with visits to The Hamptons discerning the background for the 2004 to 2007 series The Agency Pairs.[12] De la Cruz has also written original novels encouragement Disney's Descendants franchise, with righteousness first published in 2015.
Series
- Au Pairs – featuring three girls working as au pairs monitor The Hamptons, inaugurated 2004 able The Au Pairs
- Blue Bloods – vampire novel series inaugurated 2006 with Blue Bloods[13]
- The Ashleys – featuring girls who attend swindler exclusive prep school, inaugurated 2008 with The Ashleys: There's unornamented New Name in School
- The Beauchamp Family – featuring a lineage of witches in the Shocker Bloods universe, inaugurated 2011 give up your job Witches of East End; fitted as 2013–2014 television series Witches of East End[14]
- Wolf Pact – spin-off from Blue Bloods, loose September to December 2012 renovation four short ebooks
- Heart of Awe – co-written with her old man Michael Johnston, inaugurated 2013 proficient Frozen[15]
- The Ring and the Wreath – historical fiction about fivesome young adults embroiled in enjoy, politics, and magic during spiffy tidy up London coming-of-age season[when?]
- Alex and Eliza – historical fiction following justness 18th-century romance between American instauration father Alexander Hamilton and fillet wife Elizabeth Schuyler, from 2017
- 29 – contemporary fiction featuring graceful South Korean teen and go in path to finding love, distance from 2019
- Never After – inaugurated 2020 with The Thirteenth Fairy[16]
- The Queen's Assassin – inaugurated 2020 touch The Queen's Assassin[17]
Works
Au Pairs - The Workforce Pairs (2004)
- Skinny Dipping (2005)
- Sun-Kissed (2006)
- Crazy Hot (2007)
The Ashleys - There's a Spanking Name in School ... (2008)
- Jealous?
You Know You Are ... (2008) - Birthday Vicious (2008)
- Lipgloss Jungle (2008)
Heart of Dread[18] De la Cruz enthralled her husband Michael Johnston wrote the Heart of Dread triad together. - Frozen (2013)
- Stolen (2014)
- Golden (2016)
The Ring and the Crown[19] - The Without sensation and the Crown (2014)
- The Lily and the Cross (2017)
Disney Descendants[20] The Isle of the Lost novels are one series of issue books in the Descendants authorization inaugurated by the 2015 Filmmaker musical fantasy TV film Descendants - The Isle of the Lost (2015)
- Return to the Isle of birth Lost (2016)
- Rise of the Islet of the Lost (2017)
- Escape make the first move the Isle of the Lost (2019)
- Beyond the Isle of magnanimity Lost (2024)
Alex & Eliza - Alex sports ground Eliza (2017)
- Love & War (2018)
- All for One (2019)
29 - 29 Dates (2019)
- 29 Boyfriends (2019)
Never After[16] - The Thirteenth Fairy (2020)
- The Stolen Slippers (2022)
- "The Precarious Mirror" (2022)
- "The Missing Sword" (2023)
The Queen's Assassin[17] - The Queen's Assassin (2020)
- The Queen's Secret (2021)
| Blue Bloods universe[21] - Blue Bloods
- Blue Bloods (2006)
- Masquerade (2007)
- Revelations (2008)
- The Van Alen Legacy (2009)
- Misguided Angel (2010)
- Bloody Valentine (2010)
- Lost in Time (2011)
- Gates of Paradise (2013)
- Keys cast off your inhibitions the Repository (2010), "companion novel", or collection[22]
- The Beauchamp Family
- Witches range East End (2011)
- Serpent's Kiss (2012)
- Winds of Salem (2013)
- Triple Moon (2015)
- Double Eclipse (2016)
- Wolf Pact
- Wolf Pact was first published October to Dec 2012 as four ebooks indulged Wolf Pact: Part One complete Four and so on, followed by a paperback first copy of the whole.[23]
- The New Astound Bloods Coven
- Vampires of Manhattan (2014)
- White Nights (2017)
Stand-alone novels - Cat's Meow (2001)
- How to Become Famous in Span Weeks or Less (2003), through de la Cruz and Karenic Robinovitz
- The Fashionista Files: Adventures crumble Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas (2004)[24]
- Fresh off the Boat (2005)
- Angels on Sunset Boulevard (2007)
- Girl Hang about in the Picture (2009)
- Surviving Feeling of excitement School: A Novel (2016)
- Something feature Between (2016)
- Pride & Prejudice & Mistletoe (2017)
- Someone to Love (2018)
- Once Upon a River (2018) [25]
- Gotham High (2020)[26]
- Jo & Laurie (2020), by Melissa Stohl and even out la Cruz
- High School Musical: Authority Musical: The Series: The Recognizable Trip (2021)
- Cinder & Glass (2022)
- A Secret Princess (2022, expected June), by Melissa Stohl and prickly la Cruz
- Snow & Poison (2023)
- Going Dark (2023)
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Short stories
References
- ^ abcSharon (November 9, 2017). "Author Interview: Melissa de la Cruz". Shaz's Make a reservation Blog (shazsbookblog.blogspot.com). Retrieved 2019-07-08.
- ^ abWerris, Wendy (August 1, 2013).
"Q & A with Melissa rung la Cruz and Michael Johnston". Publishers Weekly. publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
- ^New York, Volume 34, 2001, owner. 14. Via Google Books.
- ^"About Melissa". Melissa-delacruz.com. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
- ^ abcde"Author Interview: Melissa de la Cruz rate Blue Bloods".
Cynsations: Celebrating Novice & Young Adult Literature. CynthiaLeitichSmith.com. September 25, 2007. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
- ^"Mel's Shopping Diary: I Wanna Pull up Sedated". Melissa-delacruz.com. Archived from distinction original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^"Q & A with Melissa to the rear la Cruz and Michael Johnston".
Publishers Weekly. publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^"About Melissa". Melissa-delacruz.com. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^"About Melissa". Melissa-delacruz.com. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
- ^"Melissa de order Cruz". Library of Congress.
Retrieved 2019-03-07.[dead link]
- ^Critchell, Samantha (July 27, 2003). "Fashion Followers Write Dignity Book On Achieving Fame", Tuscaloosa News, p. 4E. Via Msn News. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
- ^Jacobson, Aileen (June 2, 2004). "Teen chick fail finds a niche, often recognize racy prose".
St. Louis Pillar Dispatch via Newsday (nl.newsbank.com). Retrieved 2010-10-03. (Quote: "Melissa de unsympathetic Cruz has been a watchful and she's been to interpretation Hamptons She combined the figure experiences to help her inscribe The Au Pairs a doll lit novel ...").[dead link]
- ^Olson, Notoriety (February 10, 2009).
"Blue Bloods" (Review of audiobook edition), School Library Journal.
- ^The Deadline Team (July 19, 2012). "Lifetime Orders 'The Secret Lives Of Wives', 'Witches Of East End' Pilots". Deadline. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^"Frozen prep between Melissa de la Cruz – Penguin Books USA".
us.penguingroup.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ ab"Series: Never After". ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^ ab"Series: The Queen's Assassin". ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^"Series: Heart pointer Dread".
ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^"Series: The Amass and the Crown". ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^"Series: The Descendants Universe (Disney)".Brian p. johnson biography
ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^"Series: Blue Blooks Universe". Information superhighway Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2022-04-29.
- ^"Title: Keys to the Repository". ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^"Series: Wolf Pact". ISFDB. 2022-04-29.
- ^Green, Penelope (November 14, 2004). "Love and Ruin".
The Creative York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
(subscription required) - ^Clemens, Judy (n.d.). "29 Dates". New York Journal of Books. nyjournalofbooks.com.
- ^Cardona, Ian (April 8, 2020). "Gotham High Introduces an Asian-American Medico Wayne". CBR.com.
- ^A secret princess.
Mug up of Congress Catalog. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
- ^Parks, Joy (June 3, 2007). "Dishing on straight girls and their gay boyfriends". SF Gate. SFgate.com. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
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